Estimates for the number of people who develop long COVID range from 10 percent to as high as 50 percent of cases. That means tens of millions of people still are wrestling with lingering effects
than the uninfected to have serious complications, including miscarriages and stillbirths. Thousands of other women are reporting severe disruptions to their menstrual cycles.
To keep her staff and clients safe, midwife Chemin Perez moved most of her birthing center into tents in the parking lot of New Life Midwifery in Arcadia, California, where pregnant women could have their regular prenatal checkups without fear of getting infected with the virus. “COVID is much more dangerous in a pregnant woman due to a suppressed immune system and lower lung capacity,” says Paula Brady, a reproductive endocrinologist at Columbia University.
“There's just no way to predict which version of COVID that you'll get,” says long COVID patient Lisa O’Brien. “You might not die, but you might not go back to living the life that you planned to live.”
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